Approaching the Past

Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies

By: Marilyn Silverman (Editor), P. H. Gulliver (Editor)

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In recent years the study of history has become a central area of inquiry within anthropology. While classical anthropology focused on the present, current approaches seek to "do history" by using a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches. Approaching the Past is a highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history.

Anchoring the discussion with a wide range of ethnographic case studies from Ireland, the contributors to this volume establish a sophisticated interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the degree to which anthropological concepts and methodologies can be applied to historical inquiry. With a variety of essays representing sociological, geograhical, and historical perspectives, Approaching the Past is an invaluable

contribution to a discipline that is expanding and reconstituting itself anew.

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Introduction
Historical Anthropology and the Ethnographic Tradition: A Personal, Historical, and Intellectual Account	p. 3
Approaching the Past Using Irish Ethnography
A Political Orchestration of the Irish Famine: County Fermanagh, May 1847	p. 75
From Fisher to Poacher: Public Right and Private Property in the Salmon Fisheries of the River Nore in the Nineteenth Century	p. 99
The Languages of Belief: Nineteenth-Century Religious Discourse in Southwest Donegal	p. 142
Appendix 4.1: Redemptorist Sermon	p. 165
Appendix 4.2: The Peasant at the Shrine	p. 171
Shopkeepers and Farmers in South Kilkenny, 1840-1981	p. 176
The Early Twentieth-Century Irish Stem Family: A Case Study from County Kerry	p. 205
Making the Documents of Conquest Speak: The Transformation of Property, Society, and Settlement in Seventeenth-Century Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny	p. 236
Approaches to the Past in Anthropology, Social History, and Historical Sociology
Colonialism and the Interpretation of Irish Historical Development	p. 293
Historical Anthropology, Historical Sociology, and the Making of Modern Europe	p. 324
The Anthropological Turn in Social History	p. 325
References	p. 371
Index	p. 405
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